Best Southern States Quotes
- If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which… — Leonard Bacon
- Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and it… — Fanny Kemble
- Nine southern states adopted vagrancy laws, which essentially made it a criminal offense not to work and were applied selectively to blacks. — Michelle Alexander
- The Constitution...expressly recognizes the right to hold slaves as property in states where slavery exists. This, then, is not a question of general morality, affecting… — James Buchanan
- I look forward with hope to increasing the already good feeling between the South andthe other sections of the country. My chief purpose is not… — William Howard Taft